Dress Ups at French Pony

I headed down to French Pony on Saturday to play dress ups with my Aunty Maddy and to try on a dress that my mum had bought for me.

Lets be honest here, what girl doesn’t like playing dress ups?! 

I just adore this Wheels & Dollbaby Opium dress but would have nowhere to wear it!!

I feel like majority of my wardrobe is planned for a life that I most certainly do not lead, so I need to inject some more casual clothes, which I am slowly doing thanks to Zara.  

I have a really short torso, I basically go from hips to boobs and then I have a long chest wall so I am basically a strange creature. This dress was a little long on my front, you cant tell from this photo but it was too long on the back of the neck, if that makes any sense at all.

I didn’t buy this long silk shirt and am having regrets.

Maddy styled it with a fur gilet similar to the one that I already have and it looked fantastic.

Thoughts? Should I go back and get it? 

This is the Wheels & Dollbaby ‘Le Chic Pencil Skirt’ which Maddy paired with a sheer shirt with a lace back from Muui.

I loved this outfit and I bought the shirt... now for the skirt!! 

There are only a few Wheels & Dollbaby stockists in Melbourne, so French Pony is pretty lucky! 

What a great idea for a cupcake stand, perhaps I should utilize my in this way also! 

I feel like a crocodile in this dress. A rather stylish crocodile though.

I love it! 

This is the dress that mum bought for me, it is a size 10 so too big in the waist but perfect across the bust.  I am just going to wear a thicker belt which hides all.

I am SO white here. What is going on?! Need sun, or fake tan, stat. 

It can be the sort of dress that I wear when I anticipate that I will be gorging myself on food and will need the extra belly expanding room. I wish all my dresses were like this on second thoughts. 

Maddy looking extra stylish.

For those of you who have not seen me post about French Pony before, Maddy is the owner and it is located at 425 Bay Street, Brighton. Closer to the Nepean Highway end of Bay Street.

There is not a website yet, but they do have a Facebook page where lots of outfits are uploaded and for those of you not in Melbourne they can always do phone orders (03 9596 4819).

What was your favorite outfit that I tried on?  Does anyone else have the issues of not owning enough casual clothes?

Toddlers & Tiaras (NSFW image inside..)

On Saturday night I went to a Hens Night where the theme was "Toddlers & Tiaras" as the Hen, Casey, is a former child beauty queen!

I didn't have to go far to look for inspiration, all I had to do was google Eden Wood. This kid scares me but her mum scares me even more. 

No matter where you move, she is still watching you..

Saturday morning I got up at 6:50am to go to my Kick Boxing class, which I had to catch a tram for, and the instructor did not even turn up. I was pissed.

Later on in the morning, I had a Professional Peel done at Miss Fox (That post will be coming later this week, so stay tuned) and Luna did my make up in 80's Pageant Style to cover my redness, and make me look generally quite awesome. 

We went for a Miss Utah kind of look with the big over done eyes, heavy lip liner and filled in brows. I quite liked the look, ha.

I also met a gorgeous blog reader who was with her friend who was having a Bridal Trial at Miss Fox after seeing my hair and make up for our wedding. Hi!! Hope the trial was fantastic! 

What do you think? Should I go bleach blonde? 

The Husband was horrified by me in this wig. 

He said that my costume was very cute, but doesn't suggest I go blonde any time soon. 

My sister Cat and I put quite a fair amount of effort into our costumes, ordering dresses online, having pacifiers, teddy's and even frilly ankle socks. I can't go past a theme. 

Unfortunately nobody else really went for the theme like we did, but it doesn't matter as we are obviously quite awesome. 

I don't think Pageant Kids usually have such large cleavage on show, but hey, I tried to hide it and couldn't. 

Cat as a super cute Snow White. 

Oh yeah, Pin the Willy on the Hunk. Mine is the willy that looks like it is on fire... 

Casey & Axel 

The hens was at Witches in Britches which is a pretty cool place! We had dinner and watched the show, and Casey even got made to get up on stage and have a dance off. 

Later in the night one of the actors came and serenaded me whilst singing 'Jason Mraz - I'm Yours' which was slightly embarrassing as the spotlight was on us and the entire room was watching 

It was our waitresses first shift and she had told us that she was nervous so when half way through the night she dropped a massive tray full of plates, I wanted to crawl into a hole and die with her. Poor thing. 

Love my socks. I want to wear them ALL THE TIME!!! 

Worn with my Basque Mickey Heels. 

Close ups of my make up:

These lashes were INSANELY huge. 

It took awhile to get used to them, but then I decided that I love them.

 I did feel a tad silly walking through the city at 11:30am with full on make up though

Hi. Fish Face. 

This is the first dress that I bought, which was 100% perfect, but when it arrived it had some very, very suspicious dried up white stains on the front of the dress. If you get my drift....

I contacted the store and advised them of this and they refunded me and told me to dispose of the dress. By that time it was too late to order another one so I just went with the blue Wendy dress which was quite child like so did the job anyway. 

So what do you think, did I do a good job at looking like a child? 

What is the best themed party you have ever been to?

Christmas is Coming!!!

Guys. I am SO excited for Christmas. Once the 1st of December hits, so do my good spirits.

Last year I remember staring at the office Christmas tree and thinking how dull and ugly it was, so I took it upon myself to give it a make over this year.

I figure that if I have to look at it, I need to like it at least!

The office tree before I got my greasy mitts on it... It is practically crying.

I went to Big W and spent a whopping $18 for 112 baubles. I am impressed!! I might actually go back and get some more for our tree.

The tree AFTER I was done with it! Voila. Much better.

I wrapped some cardboard boxes in silver paper with alternating pink/blue/purple curly ribbon stuff for the full effect. It was a very productive morning in the office as you can see.

Now, for an outfit post. These have been few and far between lately.

I'm wearing:

Jacket: Target

Skirt: French Pony

T-Shirt: Kookai

Necklace: J Crew

Handbag: Bodhi

Shoes: Windsor Smith (I know, I need to give them a break already!!)

Does anyone else hate Casual Friday or is it just me?

Look. This was me at my sister Cats 21st. I was 7. I don't remember wearing the make up, but I loved being Princess Jasmine!!

See the girl behind me? That is actually none other than my brother Greg!! We don't muck around.

(Sorry Greg). Jo is the mask! Liz just messaged me to tell me Greg is wearing her dress!!

Now, if the above Christmas tree did not get you in the Christmas spirit, this sure oughtta!!

LLOYD!! 

Ahh, Lloydy. I miss him.